Oldest World Tour teams

Oldest World Tour teams

The men's UCI World Tour features teams from all over the world. But which teams are currently already active for the longest time in cycling? What are the brands that will be related to cycling for many decades in the future? In this post I give a short summary. For this article, I've decided to use the moment that that main sponsor entered as start date. So UAE Emirates that has a complete different identity from the old Lampre team, starts in 2017 for examples. There are also some exceptions that I motivate below the teamslist.

Teams + foundation

Lotto - Soudal - 1985

Jumbo - Visma* - 1996

Cofidis - 1997

Groupama - FDJ - 1997

AG2R La Mondiale - 2000

CCC Team - 2000

Deceuninck - Quickstep 2003

Astana Pro Team - 2005

Education First Pro Cycling 2007*

Team Ineos - 2010*

Trek - Segafredo - 2010*

Movistar - 2011 

Team Sunweb - 2012**

Mitchelton - Scott 2012*

Bora - Hansgrohe - 2015

Israel - Startup Nation - 2015

Dimension Data - 2016 

Bahrein - McLaren - 2017

UAE - Team Emirates - 2017

Motivations for exceptions

* I've decided to take the overall start date of these teams because they kept the same 'identity' as from when they are founded. They have the same transfer policy, in general the same nationalities, the same races as goals,...

** I've chose 2012 for Sunweb because this was the year that the team made a big transformation. It wasn't a team of outsiders like Skil - Shimano anymore but it became a team with a strong policy and a much more dominant way of racing then before. An 'identity't that they still have now.